TY - JOUR

T1 - Co-Creation of Social Entrepreneurial Opportunities with Refugees

AU - Harima, Aki

AU - Freudenberg, Julia

PY - 2020/1/2

Y1 - 2020/1/2

N2 - This explorative study examines how local and refugee entrepreneurs team up on social entrepreneurial initiatives and combine their strengths and resources to construct, evaluate and pursue new opportunities. We interviewed social venture teams including both groups in a social entrepreneurship accelerator in Germany. The findings suggest that such mixed social venture teams can overcome the liabilities of the foreignness of entrepreneurial refugee individuals while gaining legitimacy in both host societies and the refugee community.

AB - This explorative study examines how local and refugee entrepreneurs team up on social entrepreneurial initiatives and combine their strengths and resources to construct, evaluate and pursue new opportunities. We interviewed social venture teams including both groups in a social entrepreneurship accelerator in Germany. The findings suggest that such mixed social venture teams can overcome the liabilities of the foreignness of entrepreneurial refugee individuals while gaining legitimacy in both host societies and the refugee community.

KW - refugee entrepreneurs

KW - Refugees

KW - social entrepreneurship

KW - social entrepreneurship accelerators

KW - Entrepreneurship

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85061037238&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1080/19420676.2018.1561498

DO - 10.1080/19420676.2018.1561498

M3 - Journal articles

AN - SCOPUS:85061037238

VL - 11

SP - 40

EP - 64

JO - Journal of Social Entrepreneurship

JF - Journal of Social Entrepreneurship

SN - 1942-0676

IS - 1

ER -